Most useless thing they taught you at school?

I hated maths. Me and my friend once asked our math teacher when Pythagoras is going to come in handy for us. He responded that we use math every day, when we pay for things etc.

That wasn't what we asked though, when is Pythagoras going to come in handy?? His dodging the question proved to us that we would never need to know this.

Your welcome. Which reminds me, Art, I like art but I can't draw or paint never been able to. Why did I have to go to so many art classes?

As the OP said, it depends on your age. We learned it, although I don't recall spending a huge amount of time on it. It was definitely useful, but we didn't have computers then and few folks owned typewriters, either. I think it ought to be taught today, but again, let's not spend much time on it. Folks should learn how to read cursive at least, and practice their signature. Do people print their signatures now?

Do you use it to write letters or anything of that nature? Just curious.

yes to typing.
that is almost definitely the most practical, useful thing i got out of school.
not sure if it makes 12 years of misery worth it, but i'll give them credit for that one.

We spent 3/4 of one year on Romeo and Juliet! Our English teacher just kept on and on about it. He even got us to act it out. He thought we would understand it better if we acted it. I didn't need to do that there isn't all that much to the story anyway.

I just got bored with the whole thing in the end. That used to happen a lot actually. The teachers back then seemed to be able to just teach (or not) what they felt like.

Don't feel bad about the CliffsNotes...that's not cheating, that's just seizing the initiative👍

We had to read "Romeo and Juliet" in my English class for Freshman Year, and two things became apparent. I was chosen more often to read the lines because I actually put passion into it the way an actor should, whereas the other students just read it to get the teacher off their back.

Even worse was, many of my classmates apparently had snored their way through First Grade, and despite being 14/15 years old, they read like 6-year-olds, struggling with even the simplest pronunciations. It was very sad and painful to listen to. I'm starting to wonder if they should have a remedial reading class for 8th graders so that they'll all be ready to go when high school starts.

I've never needed to dissect a frog or a giant grasshopper either. We were supposed to dissect a baby pig too, but my biology teacher got sick that year. We had a succession of substitute teachers who were mostly placeholders while he was out. But then he died and the sub who became our permanent teacher skipped it. I didn't mind, nor did most of the rest of the class.

We dissected rats. Pregnant rats.

We dissected an earthworm, a frog and a fetal pig...I was good at it because I went slow and was careful
We also took apart owl pellets which were just hair and the bones of voles and chipmunks...pretty cool though
I think a squid would be interesting to dissect